Guild Services Are Temporarily Suspended

I just want to apologize to everyone for the service suspension today. I am deeply sorry. Our daily activities on Wednesday did not generate enough gold for the Guild Funds to cover the daily maintenance fee, and although I normally carefully monitor the funds and convert from the reserves when necessary to cover the daily maintenance, I missed doing that last night. This put us into low maintenance at reset, which made some guild services unavailable today - you will get a red message telling you we are low on funds and to do a trade run.

I have since converted enough funds to cover everything - now we just have to wait for the next reset to go back to normal.

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For those of you that are curious about how all this works:

Everytime we do certain guild activities, funds go into the one of two guild fund accounts: Guild Funds or Guild Reserves.

prosperous development -> Guild Funds
guild affairs ->Guild Reserves
construction quests -> no funds generated
guild trade runs -> Guild Reserves
exo -> Guild Funds
rift -> Guild Reserves 
direct donations -> Guild Funds
mentor donations -> Guild Funds
development conversion -> Guild Funds

There is a minimum amount that we must keep in the Guild Funds to prevent us from going into the low maintenance state. 

Every night at reset, the daily maintenance fees are automatically pulled from the Guild Funds account. If this pull makes the account go below the minimum, then we go into low maintenance.

If the amount of funds we generate in a day are not enough to cover the daily maintenance, the funds can be converted from the Reserves.

Amounts can be transferred  from Reserves to Funds, but they can not be transferred from Funds to Reserves.

There is no limit as to the amount of gold that can be held in the Reserves.

There is a cap on the amount of gold that the Funds can hold. Once this cap is reached, any amounts that would have automatically gone into this account (ie prosperous development and exo) just go into oblivion.

SO, we don't want to just transfer a bunch of gold from the Reserves to the Funds, as we would rather not hit that max amount and lose out on gold that was earned for the guild. We only want to transfer necessary amounts to pay our bills.

I monitor the funds everyday. If it does not look like the guild activity is going to bring in enough gold to the Guild Funds to cover our daily maintenance cost, I transfer the funds from Reserves. Last night I forgot to do that. We were just shy of what we needed and we dipped into the low maintenance zone.

To get the guild out of low maintenance, the Guild Funds account deficiency needs to be corrected, then everything will go back to normal at the next daily reset. I have corrected the amount and put a bigger buffer in the account as well. Now we just have to wait until reset.